Written Question·Ministry of Defence·UIN 190891
Nuclear Submarines
Tabled: 22 June 2023
Answered: 27 June 2023
Named DayQuestion
Dave Doogan
Scottish National Party — Angus and Perthshire Glens
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department expects service costs for the nuclear deterrent to remain at six per cent.
Answer
James CartlidgeThe six percent figure was calculated for the Defence White Paper “The Future of the United Kingdom’s Nuclear Deterrent” in December 2006. Due to restructuring of both the Submarine Enterprise and the Defence Nuclear Enterprise, an equivalent comparison i...
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